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Over the unbundling of SALCAB: whose reality counts?

By: Ibrahim Jalloh – (Jallomy) "The three organs of State: Executive, Legislative and Judiciary are co - equal partners in the 1991 constitution of Sierra Leone", courtesy of Hon. Ibrahim Bundu, former Member of Parliament of the APC. The competitive edge of the executive organ of government is that it raises state resources, control same and distribute to state intuitions for the effective and efficient running of state governance. The legislature has the critical role of ensuring that state resources are used judiciously and for the intended purpose. In essence, both the executive and legislative organs of government are mutually reinforcing in a democratic state. State intuitions exist to serve but not to decorate the state. When it becomes glaring that a state institution has assumed a liability character, the executive organ can step in to readjust the situation and this is precisely the focus of the Ministry of Information and Communication through the Minister, Hon. Mohamed Rahman Swarray. We already know that the two principal drivers for the unbundling of SALCAB are fiscal sustainability and relatively the disrobing of a potential liability character. Who can understand this better than the leadership of the Ministry that superintends SALCAB? Narrowing down, Hon. Ibrahim Tawa Conteh, overzealous he may seem, must disagree within context and reason. His role and that of his Committee on Accountability and Transparency is complementary and one that must seek to fine tunes the best intentions of government in the pursuit of the greater good for Sierra Leoneans. Hon. Ibrahim Tawa Conteh lost the opportunity to perform this role by being personal and self centered. Leadership of a committee does not make you the committee. He shouldn't have broken the stable and collapsed the heavens over a matter that should have been settled with decorum. Hon. Ibrahim Tawa Conteh may have a case with the best of intentions but the conduct he applied puts him in the devil's corridor. His hurried resignation over a simple matter of unbundling a state institution against a scary perception survey pointing at corruption in Parliament betrays element of guilt. The Hon. must stay on and fight the cause. Certainly, Hon. Ibrahim Tawa Conteh is being applauded by some Sierra Leoneans whose business is to make political capital out of any undesirable action. On record, the Minister of Information and Communication, Hon. Mohamed Rahman Swarray, is a fine Minister and one that has attracted the admiration and appreciation of many Sierra Leoneans from both sides of the political divide. He undoubtedly has a big heart for Sierra Leone.

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